Phoebe apparently thought that Joey was actually gay an early draft of this episo.
Contents:
- ‘JOEY, YOU’RE GAY!’: INSI THE SURPRISG FRIENDS JOKE THE WRERS REMOVED
- WHAT IF THE FRIENDS CHARACTERS WERE GAY?
- FRIENDS WRERS CUT A JOKE ABOUT JOEY BEG SECRETLY GAY
- JOEY OM “FRIENDS” WAS GAY & CLOSETED JOKE CUT OM SEASON 4 FALE
‘JOEY, YOU’RE GAY!’: INSI THE SURPRISG FRIENDS JOKE THE WRERS REMOVED
Friends wrers origally clud a joke the much-loved TV show about Joey beg secretly gay, but was later cut. * is joey tribbiani gay *
Much has been wrten about the legacy of Friends and how, viewed hdsight, was problematic how picted and diststed homosexualy particular.
Or the One Where Ross photoshopped Chandler to gay pornography as a prank? But the many, many exampl seem all the more strange when you disver that, on some level, the wrers were open to the ia that Joey himself was gay. We know seems unlikely that Joey Tribbiani, the most womanisg man the group, was quietly nursg homosexual sir.
WHAT IF THE FRIENDS CHARACTERS WERE GAY?
We know that Chandler seemed the more stereotypil, cliched ndidate thanks to his aforementned 'qualy', or that Ross's explic homophobia uld fact shield unnsc sir.
But 's te: Joey was the one who the wrers explicly referred to as gay one episo, before letg the fal draft.
But the origal script - published the tie- book which prted the entire origal script, gave Phoebe an addn: 'Or, "Hey, Joey, you're gay.
FRIENDS WRERS CUT A JOKE ABOUT JOEY BEG SECRETLY GAY
We know that this statement don't mean that the wrers planned then abandoned a storyle where Joey tly do put women behd him and out as gay.
JOEY OM “FRIENDS” WAS GAY & CLOSETED JOKE CUT OM SEASON 4 FALE
When he fds out that one of his stunts is up for the same role, he attempts to sabotage the stunt's efforts by enuragg him to play the character gay.
He is ially shunned by Chandler when he rrectly assum that he is gay.